Here we are arriving at the Park Manor Hotel in the evening of April 4th. They gave us a cabin with bunk beds and a double bed...the s weren't real thrilled with having to sleep in wobbly bunk beds, so we got upgraded into the actual hotel itself. It is really lovely. We are all tired....had dinner and then off to bed.
Here is the mock up in the visitor center of the burial tomb at New grange.
Here is Edward sitting in the cubby hole in the tomb known as the New Grange. It is a burial site of 5,000 years ago. We did not get to go to the actual site as the tours were all booked for the day, but the interpretive center showed a movie and the theory behind the site and a mock up of what's inside. One of the natives told us that "It isn't very exciting anyway, this visitors center is better and you don't have to stoop over to go through."
This is the site of the Battle of the Boyne which took place in 1690's when England, France, and Ireland were all fighting over their territory and the rights to worship as they pleased. William of Orange won. This site was really lovely, just being under a year old. There are walkways to walk the sites of the battles and an interpretive center which showed a reenactment of the battle with a diorama which showed the progress of the soldiers on each side...the Williamites and the Jacobites. Just as we were getting ready to come in, it started to rain and the cold wind blew like crazy, but we got into the dry visitors center and continued our journey.
Here we are arriving at the Park Manor Hotel in the evening of April 4th. They gave us a cabin with bunk beds and a double bed...the s weren't real thrilled with having to sleep in wobbly bunk beds, so we got upgraded into the actual hotel itself. It is really lovely. We are all tired....had dinner and then off to bed.
Here is the mock up in the visitor center of the burial tomb at New grange.
Here is Edward sitting in the cubby hole in the tomb known as the New Grange. It is a burial site of 5,000 years ago. We did not get to go to the actual site as the tours were all booked for the day, but the interpretive center showed a movie and the theory behind the site and a mock up of what's inside. One of the natives told us that "It isn't very exciting anyway, this visitors center is better and you don't have to stoop over to go through."
This is the site of the Battle of the Boyne which took place in 1690's when England, France, and Ireland were all fighting over their territory and the rights to worship as they pleased. William of Orange won. This site was really lovely, just being under a year old. There are walkways to walk the sites of the battles and an interpretive center which showed a reenactment of the battle with a diorama which showed the progress of the soldiers on each side...the Williamites and the Jacobites. Just as we were getting ready to come in, it started to rain and the cold wind blew like crazy, but we got into the dry visitors center and continued our journey.
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